Keelhauled: Unsportsmanlike conduct and the America's Cup

The description on the history of the cup is interesting as is the interpretation of events over time. Quite a lot of the book is devoted to the 1983 loss of the Cup and the authors interpretation of events surrounding it. I could not bring myself to consider it an accurate documentary of the subject, more of personal point of view. The book would have been better if the author had not taken it all so personally.

Worth a read anyway. Subsequent events and the current state of the Cup make reading this book an insight onto the cultural background of the America's Cup. If you make it all the way through it is worth remembering a statement made by Tom Ehman, who gets a mention is this book, during the San Diego defence of the Cup. "We will jimmy the rules to win this thing in the same way the New York Yacht Club did for 132 years". I bet Doug Riggs winced when he heard that one.